Thesis Submission Notices

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The following theses have been submitted toย the Faculty of Science Graduate Officeย and are available for review by any member of the University. Thesis defences at the University of Waterloo are also open to the campus community.

Winter 2025 PhD defenses

Wednesday, January 8, 2025 at 9:00:00 AM

PhD Candidate: Michelle MCKNIGHT
Title: Microbial ecology of nitrification in engineered water treatment systems
Supervisor: Josh Neufeld
Department: Biology
Location/Method: B1 266 and Remote via MS TEAMS

Friday, February 7, 2025 at 1:00:00 PM

PhD Candidate: Muzi LI
Title: A Multi-Phase Analysis of Gas Dynamics and Perturbations in the Galaxy Cluster Cores
Supervisor: Brian McNamara
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Location/Method: PHY 352 and Remote via MS TEAMS

Winter 2025 MSc defences

Monday, January 6, 2025 at 11:00:00 AM

MSc Candidate: Parisa AHMADI
Title: Comparing different delivery systems in site-specific genome editing in ๐˜Š๐˜ฉ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ข ๐˜ท๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜จ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ด
Supervisor: Valerie Ward
Department: Biology
Location/Method: Remote via MS TEAMS

Thursday, January 9, 2025 at 8:30:00 AM

MSc Candidate: Kian DREW
Title: Reconstructing Late Holocene Environmental Change in the Pevensey Levels: Stratigraphic and Paleoenvironmental Insights from Horse Eye and North Eye, UK
Supervisor: Martin Ross and John Johnston
Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
Location/Method: EIT 2044 and Remote via MS TEAMS

Monday, January 16, 2025 at 2:00:00 PM

MSc Candidate: Sarah KOWALCZYK
Title: Determination of the accumulation of chiral pharmaceuticals (venlafaxine and ๐˜–-desmethylvenlafaxine) in rainbow darters (๐˜Œ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ)
Supervisor: Mark Servos
Department: Biology
Location/Method: B1 266

Monday, January 20, 2025 at 1:00:00 PM

MSc Candidate: Huagang TAN
Title: โ€œAnnoToolsโ€: Extending AnnoTree and AnnoView for Database-Wide Genome Annotation, Visualization, and Comparison
Supervisor: Andrew Doxey
Department: Biology
Location/Method: Remote via MS TEAMS